| HB1017 | Intro
25% | Amends section 87A-23, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to exclude medicare income related monthly adjustment amounts reimbursement by the State and counties for retired employees hired after June 30, 2023, and their spouses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| SB881 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority for the development and construction of permanent supportive housing for certain vulnerable individuals. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1210 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to create and manage a sports league for high school students in West Oahu, to further aid the development of high school students. This league is open to all high school students, regardless of whether the studen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| SB1241 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Hawaii Public Housing Authority from banning pet animals from housing under its control.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Housing Committee |
| SB727 | Intro
25% | Establishes procedures and eligibility criteria for a privilege to practice public accountancy in this State for public accountants and certified public accountants licensed in another state with comparable education, examination, and experience requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| SB1515 | Intro
25% | Adopts the Code of Fair Campaign Practices that candidates may use as a guide for their election campaigns.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| HB764 | Intro
25% | Establishes an inter-division program between the State Historic Preservation Division, Land Division, Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands, Island Burial Councils, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs that addresses the location, movement, and res...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB644 | Intro
25% | Allows a landlord or landlord's agent to charge an application screening fee for certain applicants at the time a rental application is processed for residential property. Requires the landlord or landlord's agent to provide a receipt for payment of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HB465 | Intro
25% | Requires Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to offer 5-year lease extensions to Waiahole Valley lessee at the current terms. Requires the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to submit a report regarding whether a differ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HB807 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions relating to civil remedies for discriminatory reporting to a law enforcement officer. Provides that a person who summons or reports to a law enforcement officer, without reason to suspect a crime, offense, or imminent danger ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB66 | Intro
25% | Amends the process for electing members to the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees. Requires the Reapportionment Commission to establish a reapportionment plan for the members of the Board of Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs so tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB866 | Intro
25% | Requires state employers to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator training to each of the employer's employees. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB44 | Intro
25% | Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the maximum fine for the petty misdemeanor offense of criminal littering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB895 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii health data exchange framework. Establishes the stakeholder advisory group to assist the department of health in the development of the framework. Requires certain health care organizations to execute a health data sharing agre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| SB1589 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Hawaii Hemp Task Force to inform public policy and identify methods and actions to best support Hawaii agriculture and build a hemp industry to support rural economic development.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HB1258 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the twenty-sixth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB638 | Intro
25% | Authorizes prescriptions made by chiropractors for physical therapy and therapeutic massage treatment to qualify as a motor vehicle insurance personal injury protection benefit. Replaces the existing cap on the number of chiropractic treatment visits...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB1199 | Intro
25% | Lengthens the time period in which certain vehicles must have a safety inspection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| SB1387 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state boating facility lease pilot program within the Department of Land and Natural Resources (Department). Clarifies that a private partner under lease or contract with the Department may assist with development, management, and maint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Water and Land Committee |
| HB310 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for the college of tropical agriculture and human resources to establish an agriculture education coordinator position. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB922 | Intro
25% | Increases the percentage rate of weekly workers' compensation benefits for partially dependent parents of a deceased child from twenty-five per cent to fifty per cent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB1288 | Intro
25% | Repeals the authority of employers to pay tipped employees less than the minimum wage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HB467 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of public safety, or its successor agency, in collaboration with the department of human services, to develop and establish a social work training program to assist nonviolent incarcerated individuals in the area of social wor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB243 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to assign school resource officers or guards to serve at public elementary schools and state prekindergarten programs. Requires the Department of Education to seek funding from federal grants. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB691 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the issuance of special purpose revenue bonds to assist Kohala Mountain Fish Company, LLC, for the establishment of The Village project. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. |
| HB1041 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Illegal Fireworks Task Force within the Department of Law Enforcement to plan, coordinate, and engage in law enforcement operations to interdict illegal fireworks, develop a comprehensive strategic plan to stop the importation of ille...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB241 | Intro
25% | Amends the income tax credit for expenses for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment by increasing the taxpayer's applicable percentage of employment-related expenses and dollar limit on amounts creditable that constit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB1071 | Intro
25% | Allows cases within the jurisdiction of the Intermediate Court of Appeals that involve a family court judgment, order, or decree affecting the custody of a child or minor to be transferred to the Supreme Court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB997 | Intro
25% | Proposes amendments to the Constitution of the State of Hawaii to expressly provide that the legislature may authorize political subdivisions, such as counties, to issue tax increment bonds and to exclude tax increment bonds in calculating the debt l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB1279 | Intro
25% | Establishes a rebuttable presumption that a person charged with a crime is entitled to unconditional release. Requires the court to consider conditioning pre-trial release on nonfinancial conditions before ordering bail if unconditional release is in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| HB1068 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Public Housing Authority public housing tenant upward mobility pilot program. Provides part-time on-the-job training to attain minimum qualifications needed for future part-time and full-time employment. Effective upon its appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB420 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for capital improvement projects in the fourth representative district.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB686 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Health to update the State Health Functional Plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB427 | Intro
25% | Amends the requirements for licenses to carry firearms concealed or unconcealed. Requires possession and display of a valid license when publicly carrying firearms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB806 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the state librarian to decline to conduct a requested review of an item within the Hawaii State Public Library System collection if the item was previously reviewed by the system in good faith, the basis for the request is duplicative or s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB583 | Intro
25% | Establish within the Department of Human Services' Child Care Assistance Program, a Child Care Accreditation Program to support licensed or registered child care providers to obtain accreditation from a national early learning accrediting organizatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Human Services Committee |
| HB1028 | Intro
25% | Provides amendments to external review procedures to improve consistency with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Uniform Health Carrier External Review Model Act. Requires health insurers, mutual benefit societies, and health mainten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB1242 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisional or associate level licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists, mental health counselors, and psychologists and authorizes insurance reimbursements in certain circumstances. Allows psychologist license applicants...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Health Committee |
| HB1207 | Intro
25% | Simplifies the tax structure to four brackets and reduces the tax rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| SB931 | Intro
25% | Requires check cashers to report suspected financial exploitation of elders and vulnerable adults in relation to check cashing. Provides immunity for good faith reporting. Authorizes a check casher to refuse to cash a check in situations of suspected...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| HB1268 | Intro
25% | Requires the University of Hawaii sea grant college program to contract with an independent consultant for the development of a statewide strategic five-year plan for aquaculture. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HB108 | Intro
25% | Allows government agencies to publish public notices on their official websites as an alternative to publishing them in the newspaper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| SB611 | Intro
25% | Requires the Public Utilities Commission to use Universal Service Fund moneys to provide free telecommunications access to certain information for individuals with print disabilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee |
| SB906 | Intro
25% | Establishes enhanced penalties for multiple violations of the same liquor law by licensees in a county with a population of 500,000 or more, under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| SB1096 | Intro
25% | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HB269 | Intro
25% | Designates the Hawaii Theatre Center as the Hawaii State Theatre on 1/1/2025, contingent upon the department of accounting and general services' acquisition of Hawaii State Theatre. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB104 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Educational Expenditure Trust Fund as a separate fund of the Department of Education for improving the education of, and supporting the programs benefiting, the students of the Hawaii public school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HB657 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the department of agriculture to hire a consultant to work with hemp farmers to identify the infrastructure needs of hemp farmers and the hemp industry in Hawaii. Requires report to the legislature, governor, and chairperson of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| SB412 | Intro
25% | Converts the human trafficking victim services fund to a human trafficking reparations fund. Revises the purposes for the monies in the fund to provide direct financial assistance to victims of trafficking.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| HB78 | Intro
25% | Expands eligibility for the Hawaii community college promise program to all qualified students. Appropriates funds to expand access to community college to qualified Hawaii residents through Hawaii community college promise program scholarships. Effe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
